Opera without a Diva, Act III
Created in 2027
Co-produced by Le Parvis, Scène Nationale de Tarbes – Pyrénées
Duration : 75 minutes
for ages 8+
Nicolas Châtelain, 1st Clarinet
Sarah Lefèvre, 2nd Clarinet
Bertrand Laude, Basset horn
Élise Marre, Bass Clarinet
Photo credit: Maxime de Bollivier / Graphic design credit: David Toiser, Formo
Overview
“Let’s get it over with!”
A few words that sum up the ending of any opera… tragically, rarely optimistically. After much suffering and many twists and turns, in any case!
The Quatuor Anches Hantées’ “Opera Without a Diva” is, for its part, gently drawing to a close.
While not quite finishing off the divas it has teased but admired for the past eight years, the QAH is now concluding its exploration! Its three-act opera, begun in 2019, is coming to an end; the curtain is falling.
Without anticipating possible encores—though hoping for them, given the wealth of operatic material he has to perform—the QAH delves once again into the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries for this work, creating a musical narrative, an imaginary opera where kings, queens, and mermaids encounter dandies and ordinary people, from near and far.
Provisional program
(subject to change)
Leonard BERNSTEIN, Candide – Overture
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Eugene Onegin – Lensky’s Aria
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Eugene Onegin – Entr’acte and Waltz with Chorus, Act 2
Federico MOMPOU, Combat del Somni – Damunt de tu només les flors
Gioachino ROSSINI, L’Italiana in Algeri – Overture
Fabien WAKSMAN, L’Oiseau de Glace – Jeux infernaux with Rameau
Georges BIZET, Les Pêcheurs de perles – “Je crois entendre encore”
Giacomo PUCCINI, Madame Butterfly – Chorus with closed mouth
Elfrida ANDREE, Fritiof Suite – Ingeborg’s Lament
Technical information
- 4 Manhasset-style music stands
- 4 adjustable piano benches or 1 adjustable piano benche and 3 comfortable armless chairs